07/16/18

Good Evening, I’m running short of time tonight so I’ll get right to the point. The market came in mixed with the Dow showing a gain on the day and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq finishing in the red. It was a day when a glance at the major indices would be misleading due to the fact that the major indices were propped up by the financial sector and a few stodgy large cap stocks. Overall breath was not good with declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.05-to-1 ratio; on the Nasdaq, a 1.55-to-1 ratio favored decliners. For the most part though, traders were apprehensive to make trades ahead of the Fed meeting which concludes on Wednesday. A little good news from Jerome Powell along with some good earnings could pick things back up. We will see…..

The days trading left us with the following signals: Our TSP allotment dropped -0.49%. For comparison the Dow gained +0.18%, the Nasdaq lost -0.26%, and the S&P 500 slipped -0.10%.

 

S&P 500 dips as energy shares fall; Netflix drops late after results

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Buy, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Buy. We are currently invested at 100/S. Our allocation is now +8.24% on the year not including the days results. Here are the latest posted results:

 

07/13/18 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.7695 17.9092 39.8064 52.8964 30.3215
$ Change 0.0013 0.0268 0.0431 -0.0540 0.1008
% Change day +0.01% +0.15% +0.11% -0.10% +0.33%
% Change week +0.06% +0.18% +1.54% +0.33% +0.15%
% Change month +0.10% +0.43% +3.13% +2.80% +0.72%
% Change year +1.47% -1.14% +5.84% +9.14% -1.73%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 19.9221 27.4783 31.6468 34.5688 20.0822
$ Change 0.0088 0.0168 0.0315 0.0395 0.0251
% Change day +0.04% +0.06% +0.10% +0.11% +0.13%
% Change week +0.24% +0.35% +0.60% +0.69% +0.77%
% Change month +0.57% +0.84% +1.48% +1.74% +1.96%
% Change year +1.90% +2.19% +2.96% +3.26% +3.53%

 

 Now lets take a look at the charts. All signals are annotated with green circles. If you click on the charts they will become larger.
C Fund:
S Fund:
I Fund:
F Fund:
That’s all for tonight. Gotta run, it’s my Son’s birthday. Have a nice evening and may God continue to bless your trades!
God bless, Scott 8-)
 
 ***Just a reminder that you can review the performance of our allocation at the Web Site TSPTALK.com in the autotracker section under the screen name KyFan1.
 
 
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Scott Grimes

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